STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2723

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2755

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2755 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOARD OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Board of Land and Natural Resources to approve all revoked, limited, condemned, removed, or shortened public land leases or revocable permits.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee finds that in order to effectively manage public lands, oversight of land usage is necessary. The Department of Land and Natural Resources Land Division has significant discretion to revoke, limit, remove, or shorten leases granted by the Department, issue condemnations, and rescind revocable permits without prior approval from the Board of Land and Natural Resources. This measure will ensure a more thorough review of public land leases and revocable permits by both the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Board of Land and Natural Resources for the benefit of the State's people.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 30, 2075, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2755, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2755, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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KARL RHOADS, Chair